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How many more of these do people really need to just get the fuck out from under Microsoft's umbrella?
Totaly agree, but dev need to sign their software to run on windows.
Yeah, no, I totally get it. It just blows that people just bends over like this for all the corpo bullshit, users, devs and other companies alike. I have a small business with my wife, and I try to run as much as humanly possible on open source software. I donate to the platforms we use, and for almost 3 years we've gotten away with not giving any money to Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple or any of the other tech giants. It is a Titanic task to keep everything running, for sure, but absolutely worth it. My point is that, if we can do it being so small and barely profitable, I can't imagine larger companies having an issue with moving away from these predatory practices. Then again, I'm not fully aware of what other businesses might require that we can live without comfortably.
Congrats! I did the same.
You know all those conveniences that Google gives us for "free" that we all of a sudden can't seem to live without? Microsoft does that for "enterprise level" companies.
But open source is janky and doesnt Just Work!
Just like with proprietary software, there's amazingly dependable FOSS software, and there's garbage. In my experience FOSS is much more reliable when compared to it's proprietary counterparts, with very few exceptions. Seems to me that you've been dealing with the wrong FOSS projects.
This is a thread about how corpo shit arbitrarily locks you out with no warning.
Is it though? Read it all, see if that's really the topic, or just a symptom of the actual issue.
I really hate explicitly explaining the joke, so im not going to. I tried.